FLINT, MI -- Flint police took a rifle and ammunition from a mentally unstable man for safe keeping after the man was shooting the weapon in his backyard Saturday, a report said.

Police were dispatched to the 1000 block of Walnut Street about 2:20 p.m. to reports that a man was shooting a weapon in his backyard.

When police talked to the man, he admitted to firing shots from a .30-06 Connecticut Vally Arms rifle. Police took the weapon, which had 16 live rounds in it from the man after determining the he was not taking his schizophrenia medication, the report said.

Police also took nine .50-caliber slugs for safekeeping.

The man was taken to Hurley Medical Center for a psych evaluation, the report said.